Date: 1739
"Philosophy ... raises [one] above the rest of human Kind, and gives the sovereign Empire to Reason, subjecting the animal Part to its Laws, the gross Appetite of which debases us to Beasts"
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Date: 1739
"This Empire which Reason holds over the Senses, does not make us renounce the Sweets of Praise"
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Date: 1739
A woman may have one heart in subjection to her empire
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Date: 1762
"Thy griefs pent up, have prey'd upon thy heart."
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Date: 1762
"The unbridled Athamand, his sister's son, / In firm alliance with a noble princess, / Whom Persia's court had destin'd to his love, / (His tyrant passions brooking no controul,) / Demanded Zobeide as despotic master."
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Date: 1762
"A Scythian's heart is steel'd 'gainst panic terrors."
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Date: 1762
"Had the proud exile read my heart, / He then must have appeas'd the woes I suffer'd, / He then had pardon'd, and thou might'st have sooth'd me."
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Date: 1762
"Avarice has canker'd their imprison'd minds, / And lust of gold has blinded them to justice."
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Date: 1762
"Shall kings controul th' eternal rights of nature? / The free-born mind is royal of itself, / Nor asks vain glosses from exterior grandeur."
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